Culinary Institute will add a brewery

Facility part of 'beer education'

5:02 PM,
Jan. 27, 2014

Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, which will help develop a small brewery at the new student union center at The Culinary Institute of American in Hyde Park. The brewery is expected to open to the public in the summer of 2015.

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Emily Stewart

Add the Culinary Institute of America to the growing list of local brewery sites.

The New York City-based Brooklyn Brewery will help develop a small brewery at the new student union center on the Hyde Park campus. The brewery is expected to open to the public in the summer of 2015, says CIA spokesman Jeff Levine.

The school will integrate brewery operations into its curriculum. Juniors and seniors working on a concentration in advanced wine, beverage and hospitality will staff the brewery and learn about fermentation and brewing techniques, and the business aspect of running a small food and ...